Add to ORKGSong about a sailor, Harry Rice. As he sits on a beach in Jamaica, he meets an innocent woman and thinks of home and the wife and family he left behind in St. John's.see Leach, MacEdward, "Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast." Ottawa: National Museum of Man p. 224 "Jamaica Girl"; Creighton, Helen, "Maritime Folk Songs." Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1961, p. 142 "The Gallant Brigantine"